There’s nothing new in ‘Dilwale’, which steals moments not just from Rohit Shetty’s ‘Golmaal’ films, but also from Hollywood rom com ‘Love Actually’. Rohit Shetty is back in his favourite Goa, choosing to use sets which look like sets, done up in blindingly bright colours for a most improbable back-story, involving the main lead pair, gangs, and guns and bullets, but gets back to its tiresome old haunts and habits soon enough.

The film leans heavily on Shah Rukh's mega-stardom, Varun's effervescence, breathtaking locales (Iceland and Bulgaria), orchestrated car chases and over-the-top situations, which have you chuckling.

Two decades after the duo conjured up unforgettable magic in DDLJ, but this time its fail to impress as the same. But the two stars together can still generate a fair bit of pop and sizzle when the dice rolls in their favour in a rather uneven game that is an erratic cocktail of romance, action and comedy.

Whether it is just the force of nostalgia or a case of pure class asserting itself, Dilwale sails along just fine as long as SRK and Kajol are on the screen.

Hope so everyone went for movie with a high expectation on lead pairs, the film they are trapped in is, unfortunately, utterly soulless.

Dilwale, if not outright piffle, is flat and desultory. It has two time-frames separated by 15 years and both the stories that it narrates are about lovers, warring guardians and broken hearts.

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While
the first is action-packed and expectedly allows director Rohit Shetty
to pull off a couple of exciting chase sequences, the second is a
pedestrian mish-mash of multiple and incompatible elements.

The
plot goes round in circles as a duo of brothers finds history repeating
itself when the younger one falls in love with a girl but runs into a
wall partly of his own making and partly of his elder sibling’s.

Dilwale,
like many of Shetty’s other films, is set primarily in Goa, where Veer
(Varun Dhawan), the wayward brother of a respectable car modifier Raj
(Shahrukh Khan), repeatedly falls asleep on the job and ends up losing
expensive parts of the vehicle in his charge.

Right
upfront there is a hint that the amiable Raj has had a violent past and
that he is no stranger to guns and dangerous stunts.

His prowess comes to the fore when his kid bro has a run-in with a bunch of drug dealers and is brutally roughed up.

Raj,
in a black mask and in the company of two old and trusted associates
(Mukesh Tiwari and Pankaj Tripathi), raids their hideout and beats the
goons to pulp.

A
long flashback reveals a past in which Raj was Kali, son of an Indian
mafia don (Vinod Khanna) engaged in a bitter turf war with a rival
(Kabir Bedi) in Bulgaria of all places.

It
is in Bulgaria that Raj runs into sketch artist Meera (Kajol), goes on a
five-minute date with her and packs a lifetime of romance into those
300 seconds, and then there is a violent fallout.

But the paths of two estranged lovers keep crossing and the complications keep piling up.

While
all this unfolds in fits and starts, Shetty bungs in a comedic track in
which Veer, his girlfriend Ishita (Kriti Sanon), him bum chum Sid
(Varun Sharma) and a petty thief Mani (Johnny Lever) desperately seek to
reunite Raj and Meera, who now runs a restaurant in Goa.

Shetty
is best at blowing up cars and staging big action scenes. But this
propensity of his has to take a back seat because Dilwale is essentially
a musical love story underpinned with broad strokes of humour.

Part
of the latter is contributed by Boman Irani, cast as a patricidal
Mafioso named King, whose only trip in life is to drive around in a
souped-up vintage crock and push drugs in Goa’s shacks.

Also on stand-by is Sanjay Mishra in the guise of a weirdo who deals in stolen cars.

His
name is Oscar, which enthuses Raj to address him at one point as
Puraskar-ji. It’s Oscar, he reminds the hero. Kajol is fantastic.
Dilwale isn’t. The lead actress matches SRK move for move. But she
definitely deserved a more sensible screenplay for her comeback.

BottomLine

Watch it for Kajol, SRK and their romance. The rest of the actors are just like a our co-passengers in a tour.

Box office Report

Its so predictable as like chennai express, Dilwale also having all the recipes that needs by box office. It could be one of the biggest weekend box office runner. Hopefully we expect at least 145-200 crores in weekend box office. 40-60 on first day.